Human-Centered Design for Health Care Safety

This exciting and topical title will appeal to students and professionals in the fields of healthcare, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, other health professions, and pharmaceuticals. It will also appeal to industrial and systems engineers, biomedical engineers, HFE professionals and designers.

Pascale Carayon, PhD, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She is the Founding Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Healthcare Systems Engineering; she led the interdisciplinary Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She received her Engineer diploma from the Ecole Centrale de Paris, France, and her PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Carayan has over three decades of HFE research experience analyzing, designing and improving complex work systems such as those in healthcare.

1. Improving Health Care Safety. 2. Systems Thinking in HealthCare Safety. 3. SEIPS or Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety. 4. Human-Centered Design for Health Care Safety: SEIPS in Action. 5. Case Studies and Examples of SEIPS in Action. 6. Reflections on SEIPS in Action and Looking Forward. 7. Conclusions.